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Default clothes washers and dryers for older units with "weak" plumbing?

I live in a relatively old condo complex, built in the 1960=92s or
1970=92s, and not the fanciest place around. One issue is that we can=92t
have clothes washers or dryers in the units because (we are told) the
plumbing can=92t handle it (and maybe the ventilation system, I'm not
sure if that's an issue too). I don=92t know the technical details of
that, just what they tell us. (We have a common laundry room with
coin machines.)

Question: With all the advances in technology, you=92d think someone
would have developed washers/dryers designed for these older type
living units. The people who run the condo complex may not be aware
of such units (if they exist), so I=92m posting this query.


Apartment washers and dryers used to be popular in the late 60's/mid 70's.
You filled them from a faucet and drained them into a sink or tub. They
ranged from an old-fashioned wringer washer, to one we owned that had a
rotary agitator and a small spin tub on the side to which we had to manually
transfer the load for spin drying. We coupled that with a 120v electric
dryer which vented into the house. It all worked quite well. Unfortunately,
I couldn't find any such units from my web search.